Critical regional and international dialogues on food security, climate change, environment and sustainable development are underway. In the coming year major decisions on policy directions and investment will be made. In response, leading minds from African government, research, civil society and the private sector gathered in Nairobi to generate an ambitious agenda to enhance and scale effective integrated landscape initiatives for Africa. These initiatives will address in a coordinated way the full set of products and services required from land, biodiversity, water and other resources. By sharing the best in landscape management research and the lessons from years of local and national initiatives on the continent, meeting invitees generated a powerful set of policy and program recommendations for national, regional and international action. The outcome will also serve as basis for a high level conference on this subject to be organized in Africa in early 2015.
Nearly 200 experts, practitioners, businesspeople and leaders from across Africa and around the world attended the conference. Watch the opening plenary session below.
Integrated landscape management initiatives in Kenya’s Kikuyu Escarpment Forests and the Great Rift Valley: Visiting the Kijabe Environmental Volunteers in Lari landscape and Imarisha Naivasha’s Partnership for Sustainable Development
Buses depart from the InterContinental Hotel in Nairobi at 7:30.
Welcome music and light breakfast with coffee/tea provided.
Speakers:
Tony Simons, Director-General, World Agroforestry Centre (View Presentation)
James K. Nyoro, Senior Advisor for Food Security, Government of Kenya
Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP
Rob van Brouwershaven, Director of Nature and Biodiversity, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Government of The Netherlands
Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners and Chair, Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative
Richard Munang, Africa Regional Climate Change Programme, UNEP
Kwesi Atta-Krah, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics
Chimere Diaw, Director of African Model Forest Network
Rob van Brouwershaven, Director, Nature and Biodiversity, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Government of the Netherlands
Mamadou Diakhite, Team Leader, Sustainable Land and Water Management NEPAD
Constance Neely, World Agroforestry Centre, and Cora van Oosten, Wageningen University
There will be six parallel sessions, divided between two session blocks, one on each full day of the conference. Each session will focus on one key element promoting integrated landscape management, with the presenter and panelists sharing ‘best practice’ for implementing/supporting ILM, and the discussion, both in plenary and in small groups, leading to the formulation of concrete action items related to the topic. The theme of multi-stakeholder collaboration will be carried throughout all. The sessions will have the following format:
13:40-14:00: Presentation of summary of the synthesis document
14:00-14:20: Panel
14:20-14:40: Plenary discussion
14:40-15:00: Add/refine selection of action Items and organization of small action groups
15:00-15:15: Coffee break
15:15-16:15: Action groups formulate action plans, put on cards (for posting on Wall of Wonders)
16:15-16:45: Action groups present to the parallel session sub-plenary for refinement
Presenter: Joseph Tanui, World Agroforestry Centre
Panelists: Odigha Odigha, Cross River State Forestry Commission; Richard Munang, UNEP; Jessica Andrews, UNEP; Jean Jacque Mbonigaba, Director General, Rwanda Agricultural Board (tbc)
Presenter: Louise E. Buck, EcoAgriculture Partners
(view presentation)
Panelists: Mr. Awadh Chemangei, Kapchorwa District Landcare Chapter Chairperson/District Natural Resource Chairperson; Dr. Jean-Claude Njomkap, Africa Model Forests Program; Jeff Worden, Lead Scientist at Northern Rangeland Trust
Presenter: Lee Gross, EcoAgriculture Partners
(view presentation)
Panelists: Richard Fox, Finlays-Kenya; Christian Mensah, Rainforest Alliance; George Sikoyo, Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Coffee/tea will be available at ICRAF
Moderator: Mohamed Bakarr, GEF
Panelists
David Kuria, KENVO
Anne Onyango, Director of Policy and External Relations,
Hon. Joshua Irungu, Governor of Laikipia County (TBC)
Alice Kaudia, Environment Secretary
Kamau Mbogo, Imarisha Naivasha
Moderator: Mamadou Diakhité, NEPAD
Panelists
Michel Tankoana, SLM National Coordinator
Lamine Zerbo, CPP-MEDD
Presenter: Christine Negra, EcoAgriculture Partners
(view presentation)
Panelists:
Wanja Kinuthia, Coordinator of EAFRINET and Kenya Pollination and Information Network, Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya
Gete Zeleke, Director, Water and Land Management Resource Center, Ethiopia
Phosiso Sola, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Presenter: Seth Shames, EcoAgriculture Partners
(view presentation)
Panelists
Elsie Attafuah, UNDP
Kwame Awere-Gyeke, Global Mechanism
Mohamed Bakarr, Global Environment Facility
Presenter: Louise E. Buck, EcoAgriculture Partners
(view presentation)
Panelists
Effatah Jele, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions
Richard Nasasira, Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Rwanda
Leah Mwangi, Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO), Kenya
Jane Ngige, Kenya Flower Council
Interactive sessions; coffee/tea available
Prior to Conference, LPFN made a ‘call’ for tools for ILM and these have been compiled into a resource packet for participants.
Many of these tools, from participatory planning to governance to field training to M&E for landscape initiatives will be demonstrated by practitioners/tool developers in interactive sessions for small groups. 15-20 tools will be demonstrated in the bazaar, and participants will be encouraged to attend 2-3 different demos during this period.
Andre Brasser, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Government of The Netherlands
